California Biographies
Source:
History of Napa and Lake Counties
San Francisco, Slocum, Bowen & Co., Publishers. 1881
Transcribed by Peggy Hooper 2011
This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives
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SAMUEL G. CLARK. Son of Samuel G. and Roxanna Frisel Clark, born near Montreal, Canada, October 22,
1835. When he was but an infant, his parents moved to McDonough County, Illinois, where he resided
until 1846. He then moved further west, locating in Council Bluffs, Iowa. In July, 1849, when only
fifteen years old, he started out to do for himself; and joining a train bound for California, came across
the plains to the Golden State; and after an unusual and weary trip of almost one year, they arrived at
their destination July 12, 1851. The subject of this sketch immediately proceeded to Napa County, and
was employed on a ranch near where now stands the Crystal Springs Hotel. After one year in that
place, he settled on the place now owned by John Safeley, above Calistoga, where he resided for
three years, and afterward followed farming in the vicinity of Calistoga until 1862. .He then married,
and purchased his present place of ten acres in the limits of St Helena, and is now engaged in
viniculture. Mr. Clark was Town Marshal of St. Helena in the years of 1869-70, and in the latter year was
District Road Supervisor. Mr. Clark was united in marriage in Santa Rosa, September 27,1862, to Miss
Agnes E. Clark, a native of Iowa, who was born August 29, 1844, and died November 21, 1880. By this
union they had four sons, whose names and ages are as follows: Ralph G., born August 17, 1863; Lewis
G., born November. 3, 1865; Frank A., born August 12, 1869; August F., born November 30, 1873.